The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein online

IV EFFICIENCY THROUGH CHANGE OF PITCH

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There, by night _the cotton whitens beneath the stars,_ and by day _THE WHEAT LOCKS THE SUNSHINE IN ITS BEARDED SHEAF._ In the same field the clover steals the fragrance of the wind, and tobacco catches the quick aroma of the rains. _THERE ARE MOUNTAINS STORED WITH EXHAUSTLESS TREASURES: forests--vast and primeval;_ and rivers that, _tumbling or loitering, run wanton to the sea._ Of the three essential items of all industries--cotton, iron and wood--that region has easy control. _IN COTTON, a fixed monopoly--IN IRON, proven supremacy--IN TIMBER, the reserve supply of the Republic._ From this assured and permanent advantage, against which artificial conditions cannot much longer prevail, has grown an amazing system of industries. Not maintained by human contrivance of tariff or capital, afar off from the fullest and cheapest source of supply, but resting in divine assurance, within touch of field and mine and forest--not set amid costly farms from which competition has driven the farmer in despair, but amid cheap and sunny lands, rich with agriculture, to which neither season nor soil has set a limit--this system of industries is mounting to a splendor that shall dazzle and illumine the world. _THAT, SIR, is the picture and the promise of my home--A LAND BETTER AND FAIRER THAN I HAVE TOLD YOU, and yet but fit setting in its material excellence for the loyal and gentle quality of its citizenship._

This hour little needs the _LOYALTY THAT IS LOYAL TO ONE SECTION and yet holds the other in enduring suspicion and estrangement._ Give us the _broad_ and _perfect loyalty that loves and trusts GEORGIA_ alike with _Massachusetts_--that knows no _SOUTH_, no _North_, no _EAST_, no _West_, but _endears with equal and patriotic love_ every foot of our soil, every State of our Union.

_A MIGHTY DUTY, SIR, AND A MIGHTY INSPIRATION impels every one of us to-night to lose in patriotic consecration WHATEVER ESTRANGES, WHATEVER DIVIDES._

_WE, SIR, are Americans--AND WE STAND FOR HUMAN LIBERTY!_ The uplifting force of the American idea is under every throne on earth. _France, Brazil--THESE ARE OUR VICTORIES. To redeem the earth from kingcraft and oppression--THIS IS OUR MISSION! AND WE SHALL NOT FAIL._ God has sown in our soil the seed of His millennial harvest, and He will not lay the sickle to the ripening crop until His full and perfect day has come. _OUR HISTORY, SIR, has been a constant and expanding miracle, FROM PLYMOUTH ROCK AND JAMESTOWN,_ all the way--aye, even from the hour when from the voiceless and traceless ocean a new world rose to the sight of the inspired sailor. As we approach the fourth centennial of that stupendous day--when the old world will come to _marvel_ and to _learn_ amid our gathered treasures--let us resolve to crown the miracles of our past with the spectacle of a Republic, _compact, united INDISSOLUBLE IN THE BONDS OF LOVE_--loving from the Lakes to the Gulf--the wounds of war healed in every heart as on every hill, _serene and resplendent AT THE SUMMIT OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT AND EARTHLY GLORY, blazing out the path and making clear the way up which all the nations of the earth, must come in God's appointed time!_

--HENRY W. GRADY, _The Race Problem_.

_ ... I WOULD CALL HIM NAPOLEON_, but Napoleon made his way to empire _over broken oaths and through a sea of blood._ This man never broke his word. "No Retaliation" was his great motto and the rule of his life; _AND THE LAST WORDS UTTERED TO HIS SON IN FRANCE WERE THESE: "My boy, you will one day go back to Santo Domingo; forget that France murdered your father." I WOULD CALL HIM CROMWELL,_ but Cromwell _was only a soldier, and the state he founded went down with him into his grave. I WOULD CALL HIM WASHINGTON,_ but the great Virginian _held slaves. THIS MAN RISKED HIS EMPIRE rather than permit the slave-trade in the humblest village of his dominions._

_YOU THINK ME A FANATIC TO-NIGHT,_ for you read history, _not with your eyes, BUT WITH YOUR PREJUDICES._ But fifty years hence, when Truth gets a hearing, the Muse of History will put _PHOCION for the Greek,_ and _BRUTUS for the Roman, HAMPDEN for England, LAFAYETTE for France,_ choose _WASHINGTON as the bright, consummate flower of our EARLIER civilization, AND JOHN BROWN the ripe fruit of our NOONDAY,_ then, dipping her pen in the sunlight, will write in the clear blue, above them all, the name of _THE SOLDIER, THE STATESMAN, THE MARTYR, TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE._

--Wendell Phillips, _Toussaint l'Ouverture_.

Drill on the following selections for change of pitch: Beecher's "Abraham Lincoln," p. 76; Seward's "Irrepressible Conflict," p. 67; Everett's "History of Liberty," p. 78; Grady's "The Race Problem," p. 36; and Beveridge's "Pass Prosperity Around," p. 470.

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